Speakers

A sociologist, graduated from the Faculty of History and Sociology at the University of Bialystok, Poland. Ph.D. student at the Collegium of Socio-Economics at Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. Editor and correspondent of publications about computer and video games in the years 2002-2009. Volunteer for non-governmental organizations and in 2011-2013 Vice President of the Foundation's Laboratory Research and Social Action "SocLab." Co-author of the model and founder of the Regional Cultural Observatory. Member of many scientific associations. Author of more than 100 scientific publications in the field of gerontology, ludology, and social policy - including books: „Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok" [Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents], Wiedza i Edukacja, Lublin 2012; „Experts and Cultural Narcissism. Relations in the Early 21st Century", LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken 2012; "Aging in the Social Space" (co-authored with Łukasz Tomczyk), The Association of Social Gerontologists, Białystok-Kraków 2015; and "Economic Foundations for Creative Ageing Policy, Volume I: Context and Considerations", Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2015.